Sixth Australian Celtic Conference 2007

CELTIC CONFERENCE 2007

University of Sydney

Past Conferences

Previous Australian Celtic Conferences

University of Sydney

First Australian Celtic Conference (1992) : 'Origins and Revivals' (Proceedings)

Second Australian Celtic Conference (1995)

Third Australian Celtic Conference (1998) : 'Literature and Politics' (Proceedings)

Fourth Australian Celtic Conference (2001): 'Nation and Federation in the Celtic World' (List of Papers / Proceedings )

Fifth Australian Celtic Conference (2004): 'Exile and Homecoming' (List of Papers / Proceedings )

Fourth Australian Celtic Conference (2001) : 'Nation and Federation in the Celtic World'

Plenary & Keynote Speakers:

Prof. Gwenaël Le Duc (Universite de Haute-Bretagne)
‘Breton Identity: from non-Celtic to Celtic identity’

Dr Aedeen Cremin (Australian National University)
‘Nationhood and the concept of Indo-European unity’

Papers:

Dr Richard Allen (University of Northumbria)
‘ “A most industrious well-disposed people’: Milford Haven Quakers and the whaling industry c.1791–1843’

Ms Lorna Barrow (University of Sydney)
‘Agnes Campbell and Finola MacDonnell: a Scottish mother and daughter in sixteenth-century ‘British’ politics’

Mr Kim Cheng Boey (Macquarie University)
‘Homecoming: images of home in contemporary Irish poetry’

Mr Daniel Bray (University of Sydney)
‘The myth of Tara’

Mr Alex Burghart (Christ Church, Oxford)
‘Merchants and markets around the Irish Sea in the seventh and eighth centuries’

Dr Marie-Louise Coolahan (National University of Ireland, Galway)
‘Constructions of the Gaelic hero and the Irish woman writer: Caitlín Dubh’s elegies on the O’Briens of Thomond’

Ms Laoise de Bhaldraithe (University of Sydney)
‘Problems of language and identity in the early poetry of R. S. Thomas’

Ms Denise Doyle (University of Sydney)
‘Images of Mary up to the Book of Kells’

Ms Kristen Erskine (University of Sydney)
‘Nemeta: town halls and village churches in Pictland’

Ms Juliana Grigg (Melbourne)
‘The blacksmith as an integral element of society in early Ireland and Scotland’

Dr Trystan Hughes (Trinity College, Carmarthen)
‘Crossing cultural boundaries: Irish Catholics and Welsh culture in the twentieth century’

A/Prof. Rosemary Huisman (University of Sydney)
Old Irish Poetry Seminar

Ms Emma Hunt (University of Sydney)
‘Easter 1916 – the nation as an ideal’

A/Prof. Sybil M. Jack (University of Sydney)
‘Frontier or nation – the Scottish borders’

Dr Ed Jaggard (Edith Cowan University)
‘Goldfields, rebels and Federation’

Ms Elaine Jay (University of Sydney)
‘Nationalism and the Táin’

Ms Bronwyn Ledgard (University of Sydney)
‘ “The ancient Celtic year”: reconsidering early Celtic divisions of time’

Ms Irene Lucchitti (University of Wollongong)
‘Tomas O’Crohan and nation’

Ms Marian Marcatili (University of Sydney)
‘David Jones: the battle of the psyche – lost and won’

Ms Sophie Masson (Australia)
‘Captive in Fiaryland: that strange case of Robert Kirk of Aberfoyle’

Dr Mirielle Mazzocato (Macquarie University)
‘Celtic influences and the socio-political conflict of the Pisan city-state’

Mr Robin MacKenzi-Hunter (Australia)
‘Gaeldom’s diaspora’

Mr Bran McKeachie (Australia)
‘Songs of occupation and leisure in the Scottish Gaeltachd’

Mr Charles Morris (Australia)
‘Why should Wales have self-government?’

Dr Michael Nelson (University of Sydney)
‘German visions of the Celtic lands 1770–1970’

Dr Lyn Olson (University of Sydney)
‘British and Irish colonial churches: an alternative model to the “Celtic Church” ’

Dr Des O’Malley (University of Sydney)
‘The secret language of James Joyce’

Dr Pamela O’Neill (University of Sydney)
‘National religions and the survival of stone sculpture’

Dr Sion Aled Owen (Wales)
‘Concepts of nationhood in nineteenth-century Welsh-language religious literature’

Mr Mark Phillips (University of Sydney)
‘Gaulish politics in Northumbria?’

Ms Gwenyth Richards (University of Sydney)
‘Medieval Welsh women – the daughters of Llywelyn Fawr’

Ms Kaele Stokes (Jesus College, Cambridge University)
‘The delineation of a medieval “nation”: Brittones, Cymry, and Wealas before the Norman conquest’

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Fifth Australian Celtic Conference (2004) : 'Exile and Homecoming'

Plenary & Keynote speakers:

Dr Dauvit Broun (University of Glasgow, Scotland)
‘Alba: Pictish Homeland or Gaelic Colony’

Dr Nerys Ann Jones (University of Edinburgh)
‘Themes of Exile in Medieval Welsh Poetry’

Prof. Neil McLeod (Murdoch University)
‘Degrees of Criminal Intent Under Early Irish Law’

Prof. Elizabeth Malcolm (University of Melbourne)
‘Violence, Drunkenness and Insanity: Irish Stereotypes. Fact or Fiction’

Papers:

Dr Joan Allen (University of Newcastle, UK)
[Richard Allen panel] ‘The Exile’s Refuge: Charles Diamond and the Creation of a Catholic Press Empire 1884–1900’

Dr Richard Allen (University of Newcastle, UK)
[Richard Allen panel] ‘A Society for the Relief of Emigrants: the Welsh Society of Philadelphia and Welsh Emigration to Pennsylvania c.1798–1850’

Ms Lorna Barrow (University of Sydney)
‘Scottish Princesses Go Abroad’

Dr Elizabeth Bonner (University of Sydney)
‘Myth of Alliance Between Charlemagne and the Ancient Scottish Kings’

Mr Malcolm Broun (Sydney)
‘Macbeth’

Dr Aedeen Cremin (Australia)
‘Exile and Massacre’

Dr Carole Cusack (University of Sydney)
‘The Bloomsday Phenomenon’

Ms Roswitha Dabke (Victoria)
‘An almost Forgotten Monastery in Alsace: Honau and its Irishness’

Mr Geraint Evans (University of Sydney)
‘William Salesbury, Roberte Crowley and Matthew Parker: Welsh Printing in London’

Dr Martin Farr (University of Newcastle, UK)
[Richard Allen panel] ‘Rejecting the Past: the Clann MacKenna in Edwardian Britain’

Ms Rowena Finnane (Sydney)
‘The Case of Tanistry and Australian Native Title Law’

A/Prof. Helen Fulton (University of Sydney)
‘Gender and Identity in Welsh and French Romance: Gereint and Enid and Le Roman de Silence’

Ms Julianna Grigg (Victoria)
‘Expulsio familiaę aę trans Dorsum Brittaniaę a Nectano
rege: Context and Causes’

Mr Chris Hartney (University of Sydney)
‘Ulysses and Ritual’

Ms Rosanne Hawke (Adelaide)
‘Jack and Jenny in Oz: Cornishness in Australian Children’s Literature’

A/Prof. Sybil Jack (University of Sydney)
‘Emigration or Exile: the Diaspora from the Hebrides in the Mid-Nineteenth Century’

Dr Alan M. Kent (Open University, UK)
‘Scat Abroad: Writing the Cornish Overseas’

Ms Bronwyn Ledgard (University of Sydney)
‘Túatha Dé Danann: Their Origin and Exile’

Dr Trevor Lloyd (University of Toronto)
‘Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the General Election of 1918’

Mr Ron McCoy (Melbourne)
‘The Blood is Strong: Constructions of Celtic Health in Australia’

Ms Helen McKay (Victoria)
(1) The Pictish Symbols in their
Natural Environment
(2) The Pictish Symbol Matrix

Ms Paula Lee Magee (University of Western Australia)
‘Post-WWII Celtic Migrant Women in Western Australia’

Mr Danielle Malek (University of Sydney)
‘The Inherent Fragility of Oral-based Customary Legal Systems: Case of Tanistry and Yorta Yorta’

Dr Tessa Morrison (University of Newcastle, Australia)
‘Spiral Patterns: Irish Decoration from Newgrange to the Tenth Century’

Dr Michael Nelson (University of Sydney)
‘Friedrich Schiller’s Mary Queen of Scots (1800)’

Dr Lyn Olson (University of Sydney)
‘Baudri of Bourgueil peregrinus ac exsul in citeriori Britannia’

Dr Pamela O’Neill (University of Melbourne)
‘Boundaries, Routes and Sculptured Stones in Early Medieval Scotland’

Dr Stephen Regan (Royal Hollaway, University of London)
[Richard Allen panel] ‘Exile and Homecoming in Modern Irish Literature’

Mr Noel Rowe (University of Sydney)
‘Vincent Buckley’s Ireland’

Ms Gwyneth Richards (University of Sydney)
‘Exile and Homecoming: Eleanor de Montfort’

Ms Jennifer Rumsey (Sydney)
‘The Call Home in the Descendants of Exiles’

Mr Andrew Shields (Sydney)
‘An Exile’s Return: John Mitchel’s Campaign for Tipperary, 1875’

Ms Stella St Clair-Kendall (Sydney)
‘The Celtic Curse’

Mr Dominique Wilson (University of Sydney)
‘Winifred’s Well, Holywell N.Wales’

Dr Jonathan Wooding (Lampeter University)
‘The Higher Peregrinatio: Theology of Exile in Early Christian Ireland’

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Conference Proceedings Available for Purchase

First Australian Celtic Conference (1992) 'Origins and Revivals'

Published University of Sydney Press, Sydney (2000).

AUD $40.
Available for purchase here

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Third Australian Celtic Conference (1998): 'Literature and Politics'

Published University of Sydney Press, Sydney (2000).

AUD $40.
Available for purchase here

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Fourth Australian Celtic Conference (2001): 'Nation and Federation in the Celtic World'

Published University of Sydney Press, Sydney (2003).

AUD $40.
Available for purchase here

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Fifth Australian Celtic Conference (2004): 'Exile and Homecoming'

Published University of Sydney Press, Sydney (2005).

AUD $40.
Available for purchase here

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